Kent Mccord Quotes

#1. I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

Jessica Hagedorn

#2. I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

Kent McCord

#3. It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

John Irving

#4. Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes.

Kent McCord

#5. Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

Kent McCord

#6. For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Rachael Taylor

#7. I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Kent McCord

#8. True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Kent McCord

#9. Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Kent McCord

#10. There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning ...

Anne Sexton

#11. Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.

Kent McCord

#12. I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

Kent McCord

#13. If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

Kent McCord

#14. Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

Kent McCord

#15. Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

Kent McCord

#16. I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

Kent McCord

#17. There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

Rudolf Hoss

#18. Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

Feist

#19. Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kent McCord

#20. I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

Kent McCord

#21. Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

Kent McCord

#22. I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

Kent McCord

#23. I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

Kent McCord

#24. I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Kent McCord

#25. What does disabled mean anyhow?

Anne Eliot

#26. Your daughter is your child for life.

Marlene Dietrich

#27. I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Kent McCord

#28. That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Kent McCord

#29. Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Sarah Kay

#30. I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

Kent McCord

#31. Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

Phillip Adams

#32. I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

Kent McCord

#33. A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Kent McCord

#34. A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.

Kent McCord